Serendipity has to find us - we cannot search for serendipity. Walking along a lakeshore, I happened upon this bottle of Smirnoff and a fishing bobber, both in the "bottoms up" position. Hopefully, no accidents precipitated this serendipitous discovery!
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This picture fails to meet the criteria of the challenge. Discarded booze bottles and fishing tackle are not uncommon sights in a pond, unfortunately. As an image outside the theme of serendipity it so-so. Once again, it doesn't make much of a surprising statement--i.e., it says nothing new about pollution. It lacks detail in the darker values and the contrast between the red and the muddier colors could be much stronger.
Sorry, I don't see how it meets the challenge. Maybe you happened to be somewhere and you got this shot, but if that's the challenge criterion, couldn't ANY picture meet the challenge?